Today’s top stories in the Crypto Roundup: The US Senate Banking Committee announces hearing on Facebook Libra, Hard Core Fund gets 50 BTC to support Bitcoin developers and Algorand’s ALGO Tokens Sell for $60 Million.
The markets have continued to consolidate with bitcoin holding above the $9,000 mark for 4 days. At the time of writing, bitcoin (BTC) is trading at $9,231.40 (+0.70%) with a 24h volume of $2.04bn and ether (ETH) is trading at $267.56 (-0.32%) with a 24h volume of $1.19bn. The MVIS CryptoCompare Digital Assets 10 Index is currently tracking at 4,275.82 (+1.04%).
The two most prominent privacy-centric cryptoassets, Monero (XMR) and ZCash (ZEC) have been hitting yearly highs and are up 22% and 35% respectively in the past two weeks. At the time of writing Monero is trading at $103.64 and ZCash at $107.93.